Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Galaxy Medical, Neuronetics, Serpex Medical.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Biontech, Inhibikase, Novavax, Pfizer.
The FDA has cleared Inhibikase Therapeutics Inc.'s IND application for IkT-001Pro for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). IkT-001Pro is a prodrug formulation of imatinib mesylate and has been developed to improve the safety of the first FDA-approved Abelson (Abl) kinase inhibitor, Gleevec (imatinib).
Insulet Corp. got the U.S. FDA’s nod to extend use of its Omnipod 5 automated insulin pump to children aged 2 years and up with type 1 diabetes. The expanded indication, just seven months after FDA cleared Omnipod 5 for patients 6 years and older, represents the first time a tubeless automated insulin delivery (AID) system has been authorized for use in children this young.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Lunit, Myriad Genetics.
Three of the biggest COVID-19 vaccine developers are heading into a legal battle. Moderna Inc. said it has filed lawsuits alleging the Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE Comirnaty vaccine infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 and 2016 that cover its mRNA technology. Pfizer and Biontech “unlawfully” copied the technology without permission, according to Moderna.
Japan’s Healios K.K. is in discussions with Japan’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agenc about the regulatory path forward for its Multistem somatic stem cell products, for which it conducted phase II/III trials in ischemic stroke and a phase II trial in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: AB Science, Astrazeneca, Biomarin, Biontech, Century, Erytech, Iovance, Janssen, Moderna, Pfizer, Savara, Therapeutic Solutions.
Integra Lifesciences Holdings Corp., of Plainsboro, N.J., said in its latest 8K filing that it has decided to voluntarily remove all the company’s Cerelink systems – which are indicated for intracranial pressure monitoring – due to customer reports that these monitors were returning inaccurate pressure readings.
Litigation over how to assign royalties for intellectual property with an offshore subsidiary doesn’t consume the kind of billable attorney hours that patent disputes do, but the question can affect a multinational corporation’s bottom line in significant ways. The U.S. Tax Court recently decided on a method for assigning royalties to a Medtronic plc subsidiary located in Puerto Rico that fell between the rate sought by Medtronic and the rate sought by an appeals court, but that ultimate rate was close to that preferred by Medtronic, handing the company a better outcome than it might have predicted when the IRS filed suit.
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